How to Use belt-tightening in a Sentence
belt-tightening
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But though the industry is in a belt-tightening phase, no one is predicting the demise of the art form altogether.
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Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2024
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Google has been on a belt-tightening, price-raising mission for about a year now, and part of that has involved across-the-board subscription price increases.
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Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
5 Sep. 2023
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The platform has vowed to do some belt-tightening and operate more efficiently this year.
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Amrita Khalid,
The Verge,
25 Apr. 2023
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But Google is also in belt-tightening mode, clamping down on projects companywide that aren’t paying off.
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WSJ,
4 Oct. 2023
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This time around, the space appears to have been hit with a general belt-tightening following a rosier stretch coming out of the pandemic, not to mention that the genre has been light on breakout hits in recent years.
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Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Aug. 2023
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With studios in belt-tightening mode as streaming services struggle for profitability, the climate isn’t likely to change.
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Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Nov. 2023
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Amid a difficult stretch for L.A.’s restaurant industry, even the choice of which pizza box to use is something belt-tightening proprietors consider.
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Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
17 July 2024
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But the looming threat of a debt crisis and the absence of viable new financing alternatives have encouraged some countries to take preventive belt-tightening measures.
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Shantayanan Devarajan,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2022
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Beignets are a Mardi Gras tradition stemming from when Catholics, in anticipation of the belt-tightening season of Lent, would use up all of their sugary and indulgent ingredients.
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Mara Severin | Eating Out,
Anchorage Daily News,
25 May 2023
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Apple, the world’s most valuable company, began a belt-tightening effort last July, when galloping inflation and recession fears spurred it to take a more cautious stance.
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Mark Gurman,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2023
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The Ravens had to make difficult belt-tightening decisions, most notably cutting veteran defensive end Calais Campbell to create $7 million in salary cap space.
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Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Apr. 2023
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The studio's belt-tightening — squeezing the budget down to $3.5 million due to Romero's unwavering artistic stance — left the director to later lament the divergence from his original ambitions.
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James Mercadante,
EW.com,
27 Oct. 2023
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Because Waymo’s founding vision is based deeply on people-carrying, in a time of belt-tightening Waymo must deliver on robotaxi.
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Richard Bishop,
Forbes,
20 Apr. 2023
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The new government is expected to introduce an era of financial belt-tightening and stricter immigration policies.
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Johanna Lemola,
New York Times,
16 June 2023
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Budget tightening After years of surplus revenues, Tennessee is likely due for some belt-tightening amid a string of underperforming months.
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Melissa Brown,
The Tennessean,
8 Jan. 2024
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The cutback on temporary workers indicates that companies will continue their belt-tightening ways.
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Jack Kelly,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2023
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Other belt-tightening measures include eliminating corporate first- and business-class travel, as well as pausing spending on outside consultants, charitable contributions, and advertising and marketing.
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Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
16 Sep. 2024
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